Yes, it can be bad,but let's not forget that women are sexual beingsModern culture heavily promotes the sexualization of young women and girls, and that’s harmful to their self-esteem and healthy development, according to a recent study by the American Psychological Association (Report on the APA Task Force on the Sexualization of Girls). The APA defines sexualization as “occurring when a person’s value comes only from her/his sexual appeal or behavior, to the exclusion of other characteristics, and when a person is sexually objectified, e.g., made into a thing for another’s sexual use.”As … [Read more...]
Choice Joyce: Consensus on Abortion?
March 26, 2007 By
A Pro-Choice “Extremist” Critiques the Global Search for Consensus on Abortion Review of: The Human Drama of Abortion: A Global Search for Consensus By Aníbal Faúndes and José S. Barzelatto, Vanderbilt University Press, Nashville, 2006. 200 pp.Written by two distinguished doctors from Chile, this book is an important contribution to the abortion debate, but not without its flaws. Having witnessed the horrors of illegal, unsafe abortion in their own countries, the authors make a compelling pro-choice case. Their recounting of the facts about illegal and unsafe abortion around the world clearly … [Read more...]
